July 06, 2007

According to Michael Josephson, president of the Josephson Institute of Ethics, the mayor is wrong:

“It is a very fundamental principal of journalistic credibility that you don’t have entangling alliances of people you cover."

Of course, Villaraigosa is referring to his girlfriend, who scooped everyone on the demise of his 20-year marriage, calling it a "politcal scandal" and confirming that the "rumors were true." She left out the important detail that she was the rumor, a fact she later confirmed to the LA Times--instead of declining to comment.

In vouching for her "professionalism," the mayor acknowledged that Salinas had asked to be removed from the City Hall beat a year ago, revealing a long term relationship about which he had previously declined comment.

Heh. I guess the professional working girl was tired of being kept in the closet.

Al Gore III, son of former US vice president Al Gore, is facing drug and traffic charges in California after being stopped for speeding and being in possession of marijuana.

A spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff's Department in suburban Los Angeles said that the
24-year-old was driving more than 160km/h, far above the legal speed limit, when he was stopped early yesterday in Laguna Hills, California.

The sheriff's deputy making the traffic stop smelled marijuana and conducted a search, which yielded a small amount of cannabis and several controlled medications, for which he had no prescriptions, authorities said.

The "several controlled medications for which he had no prescription, included drugs for ADD, Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall. Heh. Can you blame him? I'd need a helluva lot more than that to numb myself if Al Gore was my dad.